[bigrangy]

You can say what you want about Dougie, you can say he doesn't hit hard enough, you can say he isn't dynamic enough, you can say he makes too many bad decisions with/without the puck.

All of that doesn't change that he helps his team win more games than any other young defenseman in the league. It's actually pretty incredible that he could be a lot better than he is and yet he is still comfortably the best player amongst his peers. He's not Lidstrom, he's not even Karlsson, but he is a damn fine player and he will be the horse/deer that the Flames will ride to success for a long time.